Beating themselves with dropped passes, turnovers and undisciplined penalties is a difficult sendoff, but while the players stuck together and rallied through rough times in ways that brought them closer, it all went for naught.
“It’s tough,” running back AJ Dillon said. “Obviously you go on that run, everything’s lining up, everything’s looking exactly the way you want it, but that’s life sometimes. It’s not always going to work out the way you want it.
“There’s a lot of good things you can take from it, a lot of life lessons we can take from it, and I think if anything, you just use it as motivation into next year.”
As always at this point, that next year is loaded with uncertainty. The questions start with quarterback Aaron Rodgers‘ future and trickle down to several veterans who also don’t know what’s next, some with expiring contracts and others with salary-cap concerns.
The hodge-podge of ponderings on and off the field in the coming months applies to so many. Take the case of running back Aaron Jones, arguably the offense’s most dynamic playmaker.
He battled through with a banged-up body to play in every game for the first time since 2019 and second time in his career, setting a personal best for rushing yards (1,121) along the way and earning prized off-the-field honors. He also enters the offseason for the second time in three seasons on a costly fumble, and with a contract likely to be examined by the decision-makers.
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